Can't get paypal to work

Whenever I try to pay with paypal it says try again. In the past when there were problems with the subscription service, I noticed on my paypal that for every attempt the automatic payment would grey out in the inactive section, and i have many of those that i can't get rid of. It says that it must be addressed by the person I'm paying too. So there are a bunch of inactive subscriptions that say I owe money or something along those lines. Is there a fix for this? Thanks.